A few weeks ago, Mike Miller predicted that Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic would be a reason why free agents would gravitate towards playing in the Mile High City. With the Nuggets snagging Paul Millsap, Miller’s foresight has been partly validated. Miller didn’t stop there. He also said Jokic would soon be a legitimate star. Based on how the Serbian has fared in his first two seasons in the NBA, suffice it to say that Jokic is treading the right path.

Miller’s not the only guy saying this, as folks better than Miller in Math is projecting the same future for Jokic.

According to a special algorithm called CARMELO (short for Career-Arc Regression Model Estimator with Local Optimization), designed to calculate a player’s value over a given timeline, Nate Silver and Allison McCann of ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight.com believe that Jokic would reach All-Star status in five years and by then would be worth an astounding $281.3 million.

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Basically, the system factors a player’s height, weight, statistics, age, and even his position in the draft before juxtaposing the same parameters to that of other past NBA players'. In Jokic’s case, he was compared to the likes of Shawn Kemp, Charles Barkley, and Andrei Kirilenko among others.

The future is looking bright for Jokic, who averaged 16.7 points and 9.8 rebounds last season, and if he manages to lead the Nuggets to success in the now stacked Western Conference, he might just exceed his current CARMELO projection.